Word: gorgeousity
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Written in hot protest over the plight of Europe's homeless Jews, A Flag Is Born paints their present sufferings, relights their gorgeous Biblical past, lashes out at the "strong Jews, rich Jews, high-up Jews" who stood by in frightened silence, excoriates the British, breaks off on an inflammatory note of armed resistance...
...Winnie-the-Pooh as Amber is from Little Eva. Her beauty, writes Milne, who is now a frosty and vigorous 64, "was beauty triumphant; alive, challenging, insistent; a brilliant attack on the sex of every man." From the instant of her awakening (around noon) to the moment when her gorgeous form slides between the sheets once more (6 a.m., usually), Chloe's boudoir rings with the anguished moans of a slew of infatuated males, ranging from struggling artists to doddering peers, and mostly with names like Claude, Everard, Cecil and Barnaby. Declares Author Milne positively, "There...
...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself...
Very little film footage is wasted on what youthful horse-opera fans impatiently call "love stuff." What there is plenty of: gorgeous outdoor backgrounds of feverishly tinted canyons and corrals; convincing skullduggery by a lowdown villain (Bruce Cabot); wonderful incidental ballad singing (Blue Tail Fly and a Johnston office version of Foggy, Foggy Dew) by Burl Ives, 270-lb. troubadour making his movie debut as a guitar-thumping ranch hand...
...fill in the awkward pauses between the trumpeting; the crooning, a style show full of gorgeous models and a big classics v. swing concert by a full symphony orchestra, a rudimentary plot is occasionally visible. The only interesting part of this plot is Miss O'Hara's version of the reliable old ugly-duckling-into-swan routine...